TNS Unifies Financial Markets Business Under Waypoint Brand
Two months after completing its acquisition of BT’s Radianz business, Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched Waypoint Trading Solutions, a unified brand encompassing connectivity, low-latency trading infrastructure and managed market data operations. Waypoint Trading Solutions officially launched on 8th April, bringing together TNS’s existing financial markets capabilities with the Radianz extranet business it acquired from...
Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 9:00am ET / 2:00pm London / 3:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are…
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…
Two months after completing its acquisition of BT’s Radianz business, Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched Waypoint Trading Solutions, a unified brand encompassing connectivity, low-latency trading infrastructure and managed market data operations. Waypoint Trading Solutions officially launched on 8th April, bringing together TNS’s existing financial markets capabilities with the Radianz extranet business it acquired from...
Business conduct data is becoming more important to financial institutions as the risk of exposure to damaging incidents increases. A new survey of more than 500 C-suite risk leaders by RepRisk – a provider of data on business conduct risks faced by financial and other industries – found that four-fifths expect business conduct risk data...
The International Securities Swaps and Derivatives Association has selected Gentek AI to build a traceability tool for Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR). Gentek will develop a tool designed to let users track the history of DRR decision-making and connect coding choices back to regulatory requirements. The story behind the announcement is that Gentek comes to the...
The alternative data industry has a conversion problem. Vendors offer trials expecting them to sell themselves. Buy-side firms accept trials with genuine intent but competing priorities. The result is a gap between a promising evaluation and a signed contract where deals routinely die, often for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of...
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...
The proliferation of electronic communications channels available to financial professionals and their clients has created a headache for compliance teams charged with mitigating against market abuse, insider trading and other illegal activities. In an era of heighted regulatory scrutiny, compliance teams are finding it challenging to put in place the appropriate systems and processes, particularly...
Structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is now gaining momentum, as new entrants, with an emphasis on high-performance technology, are raising the bar in terms of technology and trading practices. The arrival of non-financial liquidity providers (NLPs) to the European arena represents the next phase in the electronification of European fixed-income markets,...
Arcesium, the financial technology provider, has formed a partnership with Feynman Point Asset Management (FPAM) to provide a unified infrastructure for digital and traditional assets. FPAM, an investment firm focused on digital asset markets and frontier technologies, will utilise Arcesium’s reconciliation solutions to manage its expanding investment landscape within a single ecosystem. The partnership enables…
Exegy, provider of capital markets trading technology, has announced a major update to its FPGA-based trading engine, nxAccess. The release introduces a 71% reduction in execution-stack latency, measured from start-of-packet to start-of-packet on the switch. This performance boost is designed to provide deterministic execution for firms operating in highly volatile environments where traditional hardware constraints…
TS Imagine has introduced a new module to its cross-asset platform, offering a fully integrated system for managing swap economics and risk. Designed for synthetic prime brokerage desks and asset managers, the solution replaces traditional end-of-day reconciliation with a unified, real-time intraday view. By consolidating swap positions and corresponding cash equity hedges within a single…
S&P Global has launched the S&P Global, Cambridge Associates, Mercer Private Markets Performance Analytics datasets, providing data on funds and underlying assets within the private credit and real assets sectors. The datasets result from a collaboration introduced in 2025 and aim to assist investors with performance comparisons and risk management. “As private markets evolve, the…
CME Group is expanding its cryptocurrency product suite with the introduction of Avalanche (AVAX) and Sui (SUI) futures. Scheduled for launch on 4th May subject to regulatory approval, these new contracts aim to provide market participants with increased flexibility and capital efficiency. The offering includes both standard and micro-sized contracts to cater to a broad…
Regnology has expanded its Ascend platform with an agentic AI layer and deeper integration of its Regnology Supervisory Hub (RSH), positioning the platform as a unified environment for both regulatory reporting and supervisory oversight. The update builds on Ascend’s initial rollout in late 2025, which focused on data governance, automation and workflow orchestration across regulatory…
Bloomberg has expanded its MAC3 multi-asset risk models to cover private markets, extending the platform’s portfolio and risk forecasting capabilities beyond traditional public asset classes into private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and liquid alternatives. The update reflects growing demand among institutional investors for more consistent measurement of risk across portfolios spanning…
FactSet has begun rolling out an artificial intelligence document search tool to 85,000 financial professionals, enabling them to access and extract insights from unstructured datasets including transcripts, filings and news. The beta release follows previous integrations with external large language models and the appointment of a chief artificial intelligence officer, Kate Stepp. “AI is fundamentally…
Clarity AI will integrate granular climate-related data from more than three million assets into the US-based sustainability tech company’s platform as part of a deal with climate modelling provider RiskThinking. The integration uses a digital twin platform to simulate hydrologic models across various climate scenarios and warming levels. The move is aimed at providing transparency…
Enterprise data automation specialist Gresham has changed the name of the data management platform it acquired from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Opus EDM, which was previously known as Markit EDM and IHS Markit EDM, has been integrated into Gresham’s portfolio to support data operations for financial institutions. More than 150 firms use the software to…
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has announced full support for European Energy Exchange (EEX) Gas Spot contracts through its capital markets technology platform. The new offering includes a comprehensive suite of trade execution tools and a bespoke auto-matching capability, a first for these specific contracts. Currently available for testing and simulation, the connectivity aims to…
Abanca Portugal has successfully deployed MX.3, the fully integrated front-to-back-to-risk platform provided by Murex. This implementation follows the bank’s recent acquisition of EuroBic (formerly Banco BIC) and marks a significant step in the firm’s strategic expansion across the Iberian region. The transition to a unified infrastructure allows the institution to replace fragmented legacy systems with…
The FIX Trading Community has called for significant changes to UK financial regulation in its formal response to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting. Executive Director Jim Kaye emphasised that harmonising UK reporting rules more closely with EU standards would reduce complexity, lower the reporting burden, and improve the quality of…
LSEG has entered into a multi-year agreement with Dell Technologies to develop a new private cloud platform and optimise its existing on-premises infrastructure. This initiative is designed to bolster the resilience and performance of various Data & Analytics and Markets platforms that function outside of LSEG’s current public cloud environments. As part of this collaboration,…
Avelacom, the global provider of low-latency network solutions, has expanded its presence in Latin America by establishing a direct connection to nuam, the holding company integrating the stock exchanges of Chile, Colombia, and Peru. The company has deployed a new physical point of presence (PoP) at the Equinix ST1 data centre in Santiago, Chile. This…
ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure provider, has appointed Fernando Cerezetti as Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of its subsidiary ClearToken CCP Limited. The subsidiary is currently in the process of applying to the Bank of England to become an authorised Central Counterparty (CCP). Cerezetti will lead the development and oversight of the CCP’s risk management…
BPX, the UK FCA-authorised institutional venue for alternative assets, has appointed Charles McManus as an Advisor. McManus, the co-founder and former CEO of ClearBank, joins the firm to provide strategic guidance on scaling regulated financial infrastructure. His arrival coincides with a broader structural shift in global finance toward tokenised and decentralised models driven by blockchain…
BMLL, provider of harmonised historical data and analytics, has appointed Kevin Barrett as Senior Sales Director for Listed Derivatives. Based in the US, Barrett is tasked with driving the company’s expansion within the listed derivatives sector. This move follows a period of significant corporate development for the firm, including its recent acquisition by Nordic Capital…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four senior financial services executives to its Board of Directors, reinforcing governance oversight across market infrastructure, risk, and post-trade operations. The new appointees – Roland Chai (Nasdaq), Massimiliano Ciardi (Citadel), Stephen Hood (Marex), and Georges Lauchard (Barclays) – bring experience spanning exchange operations, treasury and funding,…
OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions provider, has announced four strategic appointments to its leadership and product teams. Nathan Ondyak joins as Chief Commercial Officer, Peter Altero as Chief Business Development Officer, Chris Licini as Buy-Side Strategic Relationship Manager, and Christian Kjaeldgaard as Product Design Director. All four individuals join from the London Stock Exchange Group…
BridgePort, an institutional coordination layer for crypto off-exchange settlement, has appointed Zane Suren as its Chief Revenue Officer. Suren will oversee the firm’s global revenue strategy, managing commercial architecture, pipeline development, and the expansion of the sales function as the network scales. Suren joins from Zodia Custody, the Standard Chartered-backed digital asset custodian, where he…
Veteran fintech executive Keith Todd has announced the launch of Sapphire Technology Group Ltd., a London-based firm designed to drive growth and profitability in global technology businesses. The company is built upon the “Sapphire Doctrine,” a repeatable framework of leadership principles developed by Todd over 30 years in the capital markets sector. This doctrine prioritises…
Finastra’s global head of data governance, Peter Vennel, has been elected vice president at data management professional group DAMA International. Vennel will serve a three-year term focusing on global strategy and member support for the association. The position involves chairing the Governance and Nominations Committee and participating in the Finance Committee to provide organisational oversight….
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has appointed Levent Mehmet as Managing Director for its Financial Markets business in the Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, Mehmet is responsible for overseeing the company’s regional strategy, sales operations, and client engagement. His leadership will cover established teams in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, while also supporting the company’s…
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation has appointed Michaela Fleischer as its inaugural chief operating and financial officer. Fleischer previously served as COO at Finoa and held leadership positions at Deutsche Bank, N26, Holvi and Revolut. Based in Frankfurt am Main as managing director of GLEIF Germany, Fleischer reports to the chief executive and oversees…
SimCorp, the global financial technology firm, has appointed Debbie Townley as its new Chief People Officer, effective 1 March 2026. Reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Peter Sanderson, Townley will oversee the company’s global People & Culture strategy. She joins the leadership team to support SimCorp’s current phase of organisational transformation. Townley succeeds Marlene Nyholm…
Global investment manager RegTech provider Funds-Axis has appointed Chris Machin as Chief Operating Officer, a move that signals a shift from build-phase momentum to operational scale. The London-based regulatory technology and investment compliance specialist is positioning itself for disciplined international growth, with Machin tasked to lead the operational architecture behind that expansion. The firm describes…
Katharine Braddick will succeed Sam Woods when his term concludes in June 2026 as the next Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation and Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). The role carries direct responsibility for supervising banks, building societies, insurers and major investment firms. The role is also charged with shaping how prudential standards…
Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced the immediate appointment of Frank Troise as President of Global Capital Markets. Reporting to Tom Carey, President of Global Technology & Operations, Troise will join the company’s Executive Leadership Team. This leadership transition occurs as the industry experiences a significant convergence of trading, financing, and post-trade services across both traditional…
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has appointed Michael Gibbons as Global Head of Listed Derivatives Business Development. Joining from Morgan Stanley, where he spent 12 years leading electronic futures sales and coverage, Gibbons brings nearly two decades of experience in multi-asset execution. He has previously held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, focusing on electronic…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026. These awards are designed to recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
Nominations in the much anticipated A-Team Innovation Awards 2026 are now CLOSED! These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.
Voting in the 6th annual RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
